The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 is
almost 1 month away. It's time to start planning, set the
expectations, and decide what to attend. This post will give a
roundup of some of the sessions that I recommend attending and I
look forward to.

First, the unexpected!

After much talk and disbelief, here they come! Oracle engineers will
participate to the Percona Live conference. This is wonderful!
Their …

On Monday afternoon, Neal Armitage and I will be speaking at
Percona Live in London. It will be a three hours tutorial about
Tungsten replicator.

The contents of this tutorial are mostly new. We have released
recently a new and easier way of installing different topologies,
in the shape of cookbook scripts, which are distributed with the
replicator tarball.

Using this cookbook, any user can simply install multiple
topologies, from the simple master/slave to all-masters, fan-in,
and star.

The first day of the first MySQL Connect
conference is done. It's been a busy day! Many
attendees are interested in the new MySQL Server 5.6 release, but
of course MySQL Cluster is the main draw here. After a
session from Oracle on the new features in 7.2, and early access
features in 7.3, I attended Santo Leto's
MySQL Cluster 'hands on lab'. Despite having started more
clusters than most, it felt like a new and exciting experience
installing and running my cluster alongside everyone else.
The lab machines had some networking issues, but with Santo's …

I will be speaking in the MySQL track of the UK Oracle User Group
conference on 5th December in Birmingham UK. The title of the
session is "Building Highly Available and Scalable, Real Time
Services with MySQL Cluster" - full details here.

I'm not a regular conference attendee, never mind speaker.
However I'm looking forward to meeting current and potential
MySQL users, and also attending some of the …

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